Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Bridge+firewall - possible? | | Date | Thu, 10 Dec 1998 10:30:49 -0500 (EST) | | From | Jeff Garzik <> |
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Lauri Tischler wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > I'm probably gonna go with this, I didn't know that proxy ARP would work > > like 'arp -s 0.0.0.0 00:00:00:00:00:00 netmask 0.0.0.0 pub' and handle > > everything magically.
> Ungghh.. 8) What does that actually do ?
According to a net.rumor that was found in the DejaNews archives, post-1.3 Linux kernels can do smart proxy ARP, which is [supposedly] enabled by the above line. By smart proxy ARP I mean that it will figure how "who goes where" based on routing tables.
Jeff
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